notes that the number of trucks and passenger vehicles in China has been growing at about 23% each year.
You don’t have to extrapolate that too far into the future to come up with a pretty scary picture.
Is that a silly extrapolation? that the plot for 2015 would still leave the U.S. with 7 times as many vehicles per person as China. And the level of oil consumption per person in China today is 1/3 the current oil consumption per person in Mexico (, ). No question, there’s potential for a lot more growth in demand from China
What’s substantially less clear is where the oil to fuel those cars could come from.